Re: Is Rossy Boy the new Archy Boy (Was: Larger Collected Reasoning 2024)

Am Donnerstag000019, 19.12.2024 um 09:14 schrieb Mild Shock:

 Which is ironic, since Googl Groups got shot
down, and many Newsgroup servers have a limited
retention time anyway. So large posts have not
 any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) advantage at all.
 At best you can use Newsgroups as a public
notebook now for short time communication over USENET,
where pages get automatically erased after a while.

This is actually wrong, since UseNet content is copied to other datebases very often.
For instance: many 'forums' on the Web are actually not filled by lively discussions over the web, but are copies from the UseNet.
Also private copies do exist and are often filled into database programs, which are hosted on privately owned hardware.
All of these copies are independent from each other and also from their sources in the UseNet.
In effect UseNet content can never be removed from the face of the Earth entirely, once it is written.
It can  actually last longer than the pyramids and can never be removed by, say, malicious governments or similar.
But the server themselves store only a limited subset from the UseNet traffic. But this does not say, that anything could vanish, just because it isn't in the database of the UseNet servers anymore.
This is different to any other form of communication and is something, what makes the UseNet unique.
Those e.g. 'malicious governments' would had this shut-down long ago, supposed that would be possible.
But the UseNet is actually a part from the TCP/IP protocol stack and similar to the e-mail protocols.
This can only be removed, if the internet protocols would be written entirely new.
But that is next to impossible, because of the zillions of devices using these protocols.
TH